Bad weather strikes agin

N4BW has a  repair programme underway in response to the damage caused to schools by  Chido,  a cyclone which brought winds of 124 miles an hour, along with heavy rainfall,  equivalent to a category 4 hurricane, the second highest hurricane clasification.

Currently in the rainy season, we are hearing tales of a very unusual rain pattern. The normal practice is for locals to plant maize crops immediately following the first heavy rainfall, with the expectation that regular rains will fall as the seeds germinate and grow. Sadly this hasn't been the case. It seems that the follow up rains haven't fallen and the newly sown seeds have died. This hasn't happened just once but three times suggesting a very poor harvest in April and extremely lean times ahead

Our sincere thanks to Fr Owen O'Donnell, the parish priest of Sitima Parish who  is kindly project managing the repairs on behalf of N4BW